The website of ITSM.Digital, certainly deploys a professional and polished image. You’d definitely think it was a thriving online marketing company, based in Darlinghurst Australia. However, as the saying goes: never judge a book by its cover! Scratch the surface, and soon you’ll realise basic characteristics of a company of this size (300 to 500 … Read more
The number of gambling affiliate programs terminating partner accounts, which is the crooked act of stealing both tagged players, and promised monthly commissions, these unethical cash-grabs are at an all time high. For those not in the know, affiliates generally work on 3 types of payment structures. These are: Revenue Share – where one shares … Read more
Australia and New Zealand have a tax-treaty. This means, tax paid by a citizen of AU or NZ, in either of these two (2) countries, is permitted to use those tax payments, as deductions against their own yearly tax returns. Because I’m an Australia citizen, the NZ Tax which Rewards Affiliates were garnishing from my … Read more
ITS Management as it was formally known, now has a name change: ITSM.Digital. However, don’t let this new-site facade, lull you into a false sense of legitimacy. Because under that manufactured, fairy-tale veil of smoke and mirrors, still lurks a money-making ravenous beast. I’m all for working hard and making a good life. However, when … Read more
After devoting more than 10 years of my time, which also included financially supporting doch.blog myself, while fighting for the rights of both gambling affiliates and casino players, I had to regrettably place my needs 1’st. As such, I retired this site. That was around 2019. Since then, I’ve watched not only my own rightful … Read more
There are plenty of ways to skin a cat. This is certainly true for casino affiliates commission calculations. The biggest headache for igaming partners is, the limited data some affiliate programs supply. Video Slots Affiliates, is one such program. Sometime back in 2014 (maybe earlier), they completely removed vital player data. At the time, Video … Read more
While I had previous knowledge of this merger, I was told in confidence. Hence that’s how it stayed. However, on the 26’th of June 2017, Brightshare finally sent out a mailer informing their affiliate partners, of the merger to Fortune Affiliates. Brightshare casinos will now be operated under the umbrella of Fortune Lounge Group, aka … Read more
Trust is the cornerstone of gambling online. But, there are still dodgy casino operators in the online gaming industry. One such rogue eGaming group is, Cyberrock Entertainment N.V. They have a very bad reputation for unethical casino operator practices. Although licensed by the Curacao Gaming Commission, the commission is useless and does nothing to protect … Read more
Anyone au fait with the online gaming industry, knows 99.999% of casinos operated out of Israel or owned by Israeli’s are clip joints. Seems any day other than a Sabbath, they’d sell your children, if they could turn a buck! There’s a list as long as my arm, of dodgy casinos and affiliate programs, who … Read more
When I used to play at 32Red (sadly,they no longer accept AU players) I knew if I won BIG, regardless of the withdrawal value, I’d have those winnings in my Australian Bank Account within 24 hours. And, that’s exactly how it should be at all casinos online. However, and most times, that’s not the case … Read more
Book Keeping the world-over uses the priciples of debit and credit ledgers. Yet, in the online gaming industry, when it involves commission earned by casino affiliates, accounting principles many centuries old, are substituted with quasi calculation deductions. As an example, so were all on the same page, lets use a simple business partnership with two … Read more
Not many casino affiliates veto player T&C’s before signing up to an affiliate program, much less before adding a internet casino to their portal. This behaviour is found on affiliate watchdog sites too. Sure, you might find a not recommended badge, but ironically the aff-link is still active. An affiliate who has no qualms about … Read more
The new casino affiliate program Affalliance, has bought Silver Sponsorship at the GPWA. Turns out some of the former management from the discraced Affactive Affiliate Program (owners serving jail time for pump and dump securities fraud), are now employed at Affalliance. Didn’t take long to join the dots of connection, when, “player class” was mentioned. … Read more
If a casino accepts a wager from a valid player, and that player wins, then the casino pays that player. No ifs or buts. End of story. That’s exactly how most online casinos operate. However, there are casino clip joints who use T&C’s to essential ‘steal’ a players winnings. Casino of Dreams is one such … Read more
Affiliate programs from time to time may update their tracking software. Occasionally, stats data may become corrupted. In such cases, the casino affiliate program pulls out all stops to have the correct data displayed. However in the case of Video Slots Affiliates, this data, more specifically player deposits, withdrawals and other tracking data, was manually … Read more